Why Do Strippers Strip
Papi_Chulo
Miami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
A pretty honest and to the point thread from a dancer on SW; IMO.
From SW – “dancing spoiled me for the 9-5 grind. anyone relate?â€
i started bartending and dancing to get through school; i majored in dance and also took business classes just for my own interests. I kept dancing for a few years after graduating - there are definitely downsides to club dancing obviously, but WOW do i miss the autonomy. Making my own schedule and hours, working 3 nights a week and having loads of free time to work on my own projects (choreographing, practicing, putting shows together with local companies...), working with my circadian rhythms (i'm a night owl)...
Then the money started going downhill with the recession and all. I got to the point where it just wasn't working financially anymore. everyone was pushing me to go back to school for "something practical". so i went back and got a nursing degree. holy crap, i do not know how people survive in jobs like this. obviously i'm spoiled. i cannot stand following silly corporate policies that make no sense, reporting to a boss every day, having someone else tell me when to work, working 40 hours a week, getting up at the buttcrack of dawn, and having no energy or time left over for what's important to me. Even worse than all that is knowing that I'm breaking my back to make someone else rich. There's no opportunity for more. It's so NOT motivating to know that i can never make more than $x per hour no matter what. One thing i liked about dancing was challenging myself to hit $ goals every night, pushing myself to see how much I could make.
am i alone in this, or has dancing spoiled anyone else here? I'm starting on a business experiment now and am energized about it in a way that I never am about going to work for someone else and doing a job that bores me.
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The "there's no opportunity for more" comment is actually quite poignant. It's really a "matrix" economy anymore. The illusion of opportunity (choice) is there and most in the economy (matrix) accept the illusion even though it's not real. Only the "merovingians" (currupt, politically well connected for example) and "neos" of the world are able to come out ahead.
2. support their drug habit
3. support their kids
4. pay for school
5. pay of debits
Anybody recognize the reference?
Yeah – shadow – seems as if TUSCL has been a bit slow lately w.r.t. posts so I’d thought I’d check out SW
"i do not know how people survive in jobs like this. obviously i'm spoiled. i cannot stand following silly corporate policies that make no sense, reporting to a boss every day, having someone else tell me when to work, working 40 hours a week, getting up at the buttcrack of dawn, and having no energy or time left over for what's important to me."
This stripper sounds like a drug dealer friend of mine who went square. Especially the part about challenging themselves to make more money than the next day.
The real world sucks and is painful. Maybe that's why man invented religion.
I feel like the strip club is one of the few places where we can feed or only real, hard-wired desires in life. I think we're all hard-wired for really just a few things: A want for food, clothing and comfortable shelter (to survive), a want to have sex/be sexual (theoretically for reproduction, but we've been able to limit that part) and a want to sleep (so we're at our strongest when needed to fight off others for the necessities and the chance to have sex). That's all we really want.
The club gets rid of the pretenses. Here's something I really want for something you really want. Perhaps the only thing I really want since I can get all the necessities myself, but I myself don't have awesome boobs, ergo, I need someone else to provide them for me. So, I'll give you cash so you can provide yourself and yours with the necessities in exchange for you giving me the one thing I can't give myself. Seems so simple and sensible that I almost don't get why folks who think it out would have any problem with it whatsoever. (Darn moralists, monogamists, etc., not getting it.)
For those who get it, and are OK with that, I feel like they've reached another, higher plane of existence. A better oneness with themselves and their distilled-down needs such that they see how, on the whole, all this is about is making people, yourself included, happy.
Good on this dancer for "getting it." I do what I do, do it well to get more cash, do it in as little time as I have to, then get out to do what I want. Sounds pretty awesome.
Explain to me how this is bad in any way? Why we should stigmatize this? Because some folks are uncomfortable with the idea that they don't get to selfishly have one person all too themselves for sex and money? I don't get it sometimes.
Imagine transitioning to some dead-end low paying job doing boring menial shit knowing you could easily make in an hour at the SC what would take three days in the shit job. It would be torture. The easy cash would be like an addiction.
Cry me a river about boring jobs, no opportunities, hard ass bosses, etc.
Hard work and self discipline create amazing opportunities for any person willing to make the effort.
Has anybody ever met a stripper with an attention span longer than that of an amoeba?
Because most of her clothes are too nice to *cut* off every time she wants to get naked.